[Compcomm] Forum Decision

[Kristian Lyngstøl]

On 5/13/07, Jeffrey Laramie <imnotpc at rock3d.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 10:08, Stephen Moore wrote:
> > what if the really active ones are ported to the new forums and then give a
> > month or so when people can nominate particular threads to be ported to new
> > forums, after which no new threads can be ported....
> >
> > seeing as it's only a small forum (especially when compared to the old
> > beryl forums, that shouldn't be too hard??)
>
> I agree with you and Vasek and I think it would be great if we could import a
> few of the important threads and keep them active. I just don't know how
> difficult it is to import individual threads. Maybe some people with better
> sql/php skills than I have can comment on the feasibility of doing this.

I fail to see a problem here.

If a topic is interesting, it is only natural to continue the
discussion on the new forum. I don't see any need for keeping the old
forum active, or "porting" threads. Simply request new threads to be
created for the topcis that are relevant.

It's hardly a big deal.

It's just like if traffic on a mailinglist switched from, say,
beryl-dev at beryl-project.org to compcomm at rock3d.org. The old stuff
isn't lost, and interesting discussions will carry on on the new list.

I think we might be making too big a deal out of this. It's only a
forum, it's not rocket science. Keeping more than one forum open will
lead to one thing, and only one thing; confusion.

If you feel it's too much work to manually re-start discussions, just
send me a rough list of what threads you want me to "port" for you,
and I'll do it. No biggie.

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Regards,
Kristian